Posted on 05/24/2013 3:04:04 PM PDT by BfloGuy
Sen. Marco Rubio blocked numerous immigration-enforcement bills when he served as speaker in the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.
Rubio blocked any efforts to deal with the problems of illegal immigration on the local or state level, one former politician from South Florida, who has known Rubio since his city councilman days in West Miami, told The Daily Caller.
He said it was because we had bigger things to deal with on the state level. Maybe thats true. But he didnt even let bills to the floor when they sailed through committees, the politician, who declined to speak on the record, added.
Rubios record is relevant now because hes presented himself as a moderate backer for the Democratic-led Gang of Eight immigration bill. Proponents of the bill argue that its extensive loosening of immigration laws (including a pathway to citizenship that Rubio in 2010 described as basically code for amnesty) will be balanced by tougher enforcement.
But the record shows that Rubio used his power in Florida to block popular immigration-enforcement bills prior to his election-trail conversion into an immigration-hawk.
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Just a suggestion.
tsk, tsk
Poor Rubio
He thought it was possible to be pro-Amnesty back in his Florida days and then pretend to be a big defender of America when he got to the Senate
Looks like it’s harder to fool the rubes these days, Marco.
The internet’s a real bitch for weasel politicians.
Anything short of deportation is just defacto amnesty.
Come to southern California and take a look at what happens when the hacks we elect as Presidents refuse to deport the millions of foreign nationals who squat here illegally.
SoCal used to be America.
+1
I lived in Palm Springs for 25 years so I know what happens, escaped a couple years ago.
dweeby little Rubio turns out to be an ethnic warrior, not a real conservative. Rubio has delusions of grandeur, of leading Hispanic Americans. But he can never beat Democrats at this game. His own Cuban people (formerly super conservative) are voting more Democrat in the younger generation
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